vSphere Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 241 262 330
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +68
Contract jobs citing vSphere 144 148 107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.667% 0.553% 0.342%
As % of the System Software category 8.706% 7.146% 5.685%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 99 67
Average daily rate £375 £400 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +7.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £246 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £463 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
Average hourly rate £25.00 £35.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.57% +31.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.80 £27.40 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.80 £43.50 £38.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-27.94% +116.85%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 1654 2071 1882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.660% 7.733% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1193 992
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 199
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing vSphere across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

London vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing vSphere across the London region.

London vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing vSphere across the London region.

London vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London vSphere Hourly Rate Histogram

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +21 46 £371 -10.00%
Croydon - 2 - -
Kingston Upon Thames -2 1 £303 -13.57%
Brentford -9 1 £450 -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing vSphere also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited vSphere.

1 248 (91.85%) VMware
2 211 (78.15%) Windows
3 165 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 133 (49.26%) Windows Server 2003
5 127 (47.04%) Active Directory
6 123 (45.56%) Windows Server 2008
7 121 (44.81%) Microsoft
8 102 (37.78%) Citrix
9 100 (37.04%) HP
10 98 (36.30%) SAN
11 84 (31.11%) Linux
12 83 (30.74%) VMware ESX
13 63 (23.33%) XenApp
14 61 (22.59%) Cisco
15 59 (21.85%) DNS
16 58 (21.48%) MS Exchange
17 55 (20.37%) Red Hat
17 55 (20.37%) SCOM
18 54 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 50 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2010
20 48 (17.78%) EMC
21 44 (16.30%) NetApp
21 44 (16.30%) DHCP
22 43 (15.93%) Firewall
23 40 (14.81%) Windows XP
24 39 (14.44%) ITIL
25 37 (13.70%) SCCM
26 36 (13.33%) NAS
26 36 (13.33%) SQL
27 35 (12.96%) Citrix Presentation Server

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing vSphere also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (7.778%) Web Services
2 17 (6.296%) .NET
2 17 (6.296%) ADSI
3 15 (5.556%) ASP.NET
4 7 (2.593%) XML
5 4 (1.481%) COM
6 3 (1.111%) J2EE
6 3 (1.111%) RESTful
6 3 (1.111%) Spring
6 3 (1.111%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.741%) WSH
7 2 (0.741%) Middleware
8 1 (0.370%) LAMP
8 1 (0.370%) SOAP
8 1 (0.370%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.370%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 58 (21.48%) MS Exchange
2 50 (18.52%) Exchange Server 2010
3 33 (12.22%) IIS
4 32 (11.85%) Apache
5 28 (10.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 28 (10.37%) SharePoint
6 24 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2003
7 19 (7.037%) Exchange Server 2007
8 12 (4.444%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (2.593%) Oracle Application Server
10 5 (1.852%) Tomcat
10 5 (1.852%) SharePoint 2010
10 5 (1.852%) CloudStack
11 4 (1.481%) Lync
12 3 (1.111%) CMS
12 3 (1.111%) Live Communications Server
12 3 (1.111%) Drupal
12 3 (1.111%) Liferay
13 2 (0.741%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.370%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 18 (6.667%) MS Excel
2 15 (5.556%) MS Office
3 1 (0.370%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 6 (2.222%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.852%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.741%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 98 (36.30%) SAN
2 59 (21.85%) DNS
3 44 (16.30%) DHCP
4 43 (15.93%) Firewall
5 36 (13.33%) NAS
6 31 (11.48%) VPN
7 25 (9.259%) TCP/IP
8 22 (8.148%) iSCSI
9 19 (7.037%) WAN
10 18 (6.667%) Internet
11 17 (6.296%) VLAN
11 17 (6.296%) LAN
12 16 (5.926%) FTP
13 14 (5.185%) Fibre Channel
14 13 (4.815%) Cisco Nexus
15 11 (4.074%) BIG-IP
16 10 (3.704%) SNMP
17 9 (3.333%) SMTP
17 9 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (3.333%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.22%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.037%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (5.926%) MySQL
4 15 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (2.963%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (0.741%) DTS
6 2 (0.741%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.370%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.370%) Oracle 10g
7 1 (0.370%) GIS
7 1 (0.370%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.370%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.111%) JUnit
1 3 (1.111%) Eclipse
1 3 (1.111%) Log4j
1 3 (1.111%) Subversion
1 3 (1.111%) Maven
2 1 (0.370%) MSI
2 1 (0.370%) InstallShield
General
1 30 (11.11%) Finance
2 19 (7.037%) Banking
3 10 (3.704%) Investment Banking
4 6 (2.222%) Financial Institution
5 5 (1.852%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.111%) Advertising
6 3 (1.111%) Law
6 3 (1.111%) Games
7 2 (0.741%) German Language
7 2 (0.741%) Front Office
7 2 (0.741%) Back Office
7 2 (0.741%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.370%) Publishing
8 1 (0.370%) Legal
8 1 (0.370%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (14.07%) Analyst
2 33 (12.22%) Systems Engineer
3 26 (9.630%) Consultant
4 25 (9.259%) Wintel Engineer
5 21 (7.778%) Administrator
6 20 (7.407%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 20 (7.407%) 3rd Line Support
7 19 (7.037%) Server Engineer
8 17 (6.296%) Systems Administrator
8 17 (6.296%) Architect
9 16 (5.926%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 16 (5.926%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 15 (5.556%) Support Analyst
11 12 (4.444%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (4.074%) Windows Administrator
12 11 (4.074%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.704%) Windows Systems Administrator
14 9 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 8 (2.963%) Technical Consultant
16 7 (2.593%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 32 (11.85%) Clustering
2 29 (10.74%) Blackberry
3 12 (4.444%) Hedge funds
4 11 (4.074%) Open Source
5 7 (2.593%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.593%) Computer Science
5 7 (2.593%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.222%) Fat Client
6 6 (2.222%) PaaS
6 6 (2.222%) Thin Client
7 5 (1.852%) IaaS
7 5 (1.852%) Replication
7 5 (1.852%) CLARiiON
8 4 (1.481%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.111%) SaaS
10 2 (0.741%) iPad
10 2 (0.741%) HP StorageWorks
10 2 (0.741%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.741%) Firmware
10 2 (0.741%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 211 (78.15%) Windows
2 133 (49.26%) Windows Server 2003
3 123 (45.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 84 (31.11%) Linux
5 54 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 40 (14.81%) Windows XP
7 33 (12.22%) UNIX
8 24 (8.889%) Windows 7
9 21 (7.778%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (7.037%) CentOS
11 16 (5.926%) Windows 2000
11 16 (5.926%) Windows NT
12 14 (5.185%) Solaris
13 8 (2.963%) Debian
14 6 (2.222%) Gentoo
14 6 (2.222%) Ubuntu
14 6 (2.222%) FreeBSD
15 4 (1.481%) AIX
15 4 (1.481%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.741%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (14.44%) ITIL
2 28 (10.37%) Migration
3 21 (7.778%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (7.778%) Service Management
4 11 (4.074%) Service Delivery
5 9 (3.333%) ITSM
6 8 (2.963%) Change Management
6 8 (2.963%) Load Balancing
7 6 (2.222%) Asset Management
7 6 (2.222%) Workflow
7 6 (2.222%) CRM
8 5 (1.852%) OO
8 5 (1.852%) B2B
8 5 (1.852%) Configuration Management
8 5 (1.852%) Project Management
8 5 (1.852%) Problem Management
9 4 (1.481%) Change Control
9 4 (1.481%) Software Deployment
10 3 (1.111%) High Availability
10 3 (1.111%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (13.33%) SQL
2 27 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 27 (10.00%) VBScript
3 20 (7.407%) VB
4 15 (5.556%) Shell Script
5 10 (3.704%) PHP
6 5 (1.852%) Java
6 5 (1.852%) Perl
7 4 (1.481%) C
7 4 (1.481%) C#
7 4 (1.481%) Bash shell
7 4 (1.481%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.370%) Korn
Qualifications
1 24 (8.889%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (7.037%) MCSE
3 18 (6.667%) Security Cleared
4 17 (6.296%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 15 (5.556%) Degree
6 8 (2.963%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.593%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.222%) RHCE
8 6 (2.222%) SC Cleared
9 5 (1.852%) CCNA
9 5 (1.852%) Citrix Certification
9 5 (1.852%) VCDX
10 4 (1.481%) MCSA
10 4 (1.481%) CCIE
10 4 (1.481%) MCP
11 3 (1.111%) CCA
12 2 (0.741%) CCNP
12 2 (0.741%) CCEE
12 2 (0.741%) VCP5
13 1 (0.370%) Microsoft Certified Master
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.963%) SLA
2 4 (1.481%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.741%) QA
4 1 (0.370%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.370%) GxP
System Software
1 165 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 127 (47.04%) Active Directory
3 83 (30.74%) VMware ESX
4 63 (23.33%) XenApp
5 35 (12.96%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 27 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
7 24 (8.889%) XenDesktop
8 21 (7.778%) vCloud
9 18 (6.667%) Hyper-V
10 11 (4.074%) NFS
11 10 (3.704%) ISA Server
12 8 (2.963%) Microsoft App-V
13 7 (2.593%) ProxySG
13 7 (2.593%) VMware Workstation
13 7 (2.593%) Veritas Cluster Server
14 6 (2.222%) UAG
14 6 (2.222%) Postfix
15 5 (1.852%) VMware Server
15 5 (1.852%) Terminal Services
16 4 (1.481%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 55 (20.37%) SCOM
2 37 (13.70%) SCCM
3 26 (9.630%) NetBackup
3 26 (9.630%) Backup Exec
4 16 (5.926%) Legato
5 15 (5.556%) Nagios
6 14 (5.185%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 10 (3.704%) Norton AntiVirus
7 10 (3.704%) WSUS
8 8 (2.963%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 7 (2.593%) Zenoss
10 6 (2.222%) Cacti
10 6 (2.222%) HP SIM
11 5 (1.852%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (1.852%) Tivoli
12 4 (1.481%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
13 3 (1.111%) MAILsweeper
13 3 (1.111%) MOM
14 2 (0.741%) BladeLogic
14 2 (0.741%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 248 (91.85%) VMware
2 121 (44.81%) Microsoft
3 102 (37.78%) Citrix
4 100 (37.04%) HP
5 61 (22.59%) Cisco
6 55 (20.37%) Red Hat
7 48 (17.78%) EMC
8 44 (16.30%) NetApp
9 33 (12.22%) Dell
10 32 (11.85%) Sophos
11 30 (11.11%) Symantec
11 30 (11.11%) Veritas
12 27 (10.00%) Oracle
13 23 (8.519%) Brocade
14 22 (8.148%) IBM
14 22 (8.148%) BMC
15 20 (7.407%) McAfee
16 18 (6.667%) F5
17 15 (5.556%) Leostream
17 15 (5.556%) PlateSpin
Wintel Engineer
City, London
Windows Engineer - Hedge Fund, Windows, Virtualisation, Active Directory... Hands on maintenance and deployment of Active Directory & Exchange. Skills: Windows Server 2003 & 08r2. Vsphere 5/5.1. Active Directory.....
Cititec
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Systems Administrator
London
We are looking for an experienced Windows System Administrator to help manage the Production Infrastructure Stack that underpins the new UCL Desktop service, utilising Citrix, Microsoft, and AppSense...
University College London
Rate: From £32,375 to £39,132 per annum inclusive of London Allowance
Posted: 29 April 2013
Windows Engineer
City, London
My Client a Global Investment Bank Based in the Canary Wharf are currently recruiting for a Windows Engineer to join their Windows Engineering team consisting of twenty people...
Cititec
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Infrastructure Consultant
City, London
A large Property Development organisation based in Central London is currently looking to employ an Infrastructure Consultant to support their IT Department on a contractual basis... Backups (Symantec...
Networking People
Posted: 13 May 2013
Citrix Support
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Application delivery to Citrix. Citrix farm management... Vmware/Xenserver. Printing from Citrix Thin client support. Experience of Citrix XenApp v4.5 and later. Experience of Citrix Xenserver and/...
Experis IT
Rate: £280 - £325 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Senior Systems Engineer (Win 2003 / 2008, SCOM, Backups, Vsphere 5,)
Central London / West End
Senior Systems Engineer (Win 2003 / 2008, Exchange, SCOM 2012, Backups, Vsphere,) Contract - London £300 - £350 per day... Exchange 2007. Backups (Symantec Backup Exec) Virtual Server and desktop (vSphere...
Capital IT Resourcing LTD
Rate: From £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
Messaging Consultant
City of London
To be eligible for this role you must * Have at least 5 years experience in a L3/Engineering role within a corporate messaging environment * Be qualified to MCSE...
Rate: £380 per day
Posted: 11 May 2013
IT Support Engineer/Manager
West London
Active Directory, Terminal Services, Exchange email and Microsoft SQL Server. vmWare ESXi vSphere Virtualisation. Equalogic SAN Technology. Symantec Backup Exec... Firewall configuration... Cisco IOS and Dell PowerConnect switch...
Input Media Ltd
Posted: 22 April 2013
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